New York

Storm History: Livingston County, New York

331 episodes, 499 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Livingston County, New York: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
499
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Damage
$22 million
Episodes
331

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

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Every year

From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind11800$1.1 million
Hail10100$1.1 million
Flash Flood8400$12 million
Winter Storm3200$684,000
Heavy Snow3201$1.4 million
Tornado3100$406,000
High Wind2901$1.8 million
Frost/Freeze2900$50,000
Flood2300$884,000
Ice Storm500$1.5 million
Drought500
Lake-Effect Snow300$230,000
Blizzard200$539,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Lakeshore Flood200$110,000
Lightning101$10,000

The deadliest

None recorded.

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Livingston County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Livingston CountyEvery warning in Livingston County since 1986Every county in New York

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.